Electronic registration of tribal court protective and restraining orders: the Intertribal Court of Southern California and the Pala Intratribal Court email the order with a completed DV-600 and CLETS-001 to the North County or East County address; review, signature, certified copies, CLETS entry and sealing follow. In effect for 2026.
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[File stamp: FILED, Clerk of the Superior Court, DEC 31 2025, By: G. Arce-Barraza, Deputy] THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO IN RE AUTHORIZATION TO ALLOW REGISTERING OF TRIBAL COURT PROTECTIVE RESTRAINING ORDERS ELECTRONICALLY WITH THE SAN DIEGO SUPERIOR COURT GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 010126-30 THIS COURT FINDS AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Recognizing the need to assure the entry of protective orders from the Intertribal Court of Southern California and the Pala Intratribal Court (collectively “Tribal Court”) into the California Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (“CLETS”) to ensure victim safety, effective March 13, 2017, the San Diego Superior Court began accepting Order to Register Out-of-State or Tribal Court Protective/Restraining Order forms (Judicial Council Form #DV-600 [“DV-600”]) and Confidential CLETS Information forms (Judicial Council Form #CLETS-001 [“CLETS-001”]) electronically from the Tribal Court. Since then, the Tribal Court and San Diego Superior Court have been and will continue to use the following procedure to register any Tribal Court protective/restraining order (“Order”): 1. The Tribal Court must register its Order electronically. The Tribal Court must scan and e-mail a copy of the Order, along with a completed and signed DV-600 and a CLETS-001 to the appropriate San Diego Superior Court Location. North County NCtribalro@sdcourt.ca.gov East County Ectribalro@sdcourt.ca.gov 2. The San Diego Superior Court will review the documents to ensure that the required forms are complete. If information is missing, the San Diego Superior Court clerk will advise the Tribal Court. 3. If the information is complete, the Order will be routed to a judicial officer for review and signature. If the judicial officer finds it cannot sign the Order, the judicial officer will address the matter with the parties via a separate response. 4. If the Order is signed, the clerk will scan and email a copy of the Order back to the submitting Tribal Court. 5. The San Diego Superior Court will make three (3) certified copies of the original Order and send them interoffice to the District Attorney’s Office for service on the petitioner. 6. The San Diego Superior Court will scan the Order and CLETS-001 into the Sheriff’s system. 7. The Order will be sealed per Family Code section 6404. Electronic filing pursuant to this procedure is in compliance with Family Code section 6400, et seq. and California Rules of Court, rule 5.386. Electronic filing pursuant to this procedure is in addition to all other previously accepted methods of filing which are not affected by the issuance of this the General Order. This order shall become effective on January 1, 2026, and expire on December 31, 2026, unless otherwise ordered by this court. IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: December 31, 2025 [signature] HONORABLE MAUREEN F. HALLAHAN PRESIDING JUDGE
[File stamp: FILED, Clerk of the Superior Court, DEC 31 2025, By: G. Arce-Barraza, Deputy] THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO IN RE AUTHORIZATION TO ALLOW REGISTERING OF TRIBAL COURT PROTECTIVE RESTRAINING ORDERS ELECTRONICALLY WITH THE SAN DIEGO SUPERIOR COURT GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 010126-30 THIS COURT FINDS AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Recog
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-28 (California T3 San Diego build) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-san-diego/go/general_order_010126-30.pdf (102357 bytes, sha256 8ac6d97a35c72628f30428068d2bfc16797f57b3acb2e9e043fde078b23923a6; 2 pages) - the court's own posted PDF, a scan with no usable text layer: transcribed from the rendered page images, every page read against the image; a machine reading (RapidOCR) was used only as a second reader for a word-level diff; every quotation mark, apostrophe, dash and section sign checked in full-resolution crops; pleading line numbers and “///” fill marks omitted; the file stamp and signature bracketed. The order prints “issuance of this the General Order”. Printed irregularities are kept as printed.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.